Coventry RUP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Rational Unified Process (RUP) skills within the Coventry region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited RUP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Location Abingdon Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hendon Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	24
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.461 %	1.010 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£429	£392
% change on same period last year	+9.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.47	£33.09
% change on same period last year	+16.28 %
Processes & Methodologies Coventry
Matching contract IT job ads	217	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.286 %	0.105 %
Daily rates quoted	69	25
Average minimum daily rate	£362	£345
Average daily rate	£382	£371
% change on same period last year	+2.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£403	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.71	£26.49
Average hourly rate	£29.11	£28.24
% change on same period last year	+3.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.50	£29.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
RUP West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing RUP across the Coventry region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

RUP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RUP across the Coventry region.

RUP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RUP across the Coventry region.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry region citing RUP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RUP.

1 10 (90.91 %) PRINCE2 1 10 (90.91 %) UML 2 9 (81.82 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 8 (72.73 %) Agile Software Development 4 7 (63.64 %) Government 5 4 (36.36 %) Project Management 6 3 (27.27 %) Risk Management 6 3 (27.27 %) Education 6 3 (27.27 %) ISEB 7 2 (18.18 %) QA 7 2 (18.18 %) RAD 7 2 (18.18 %) MS Visio 7 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 7 2 (18.18 %) C 7 2 (18.18 %) Management Information System

7 2 (18.18 %) Finance 7 2 (18.18 %) MS Office 8 1 (9.091 %) Java 8 1 (9.091 %) OO 8 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry region citing RUP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RUP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Office 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Visio	General 1 7 (63.64 %) Government 2 3 (27.27 %) Education 3 2 (18.18 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 11 (100.00 %) Project Manager 2 3 (27.27 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Development Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Development Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (90.91 %) PRINCE2 1 10 (90.91 %) UML 2 8 (72.73 %) Agile Software Development 3 4 (36.36 %) Project Management 4 3 (27.27 %) Risk Management 5 2 (18.18 %) RAD 6 1 (9.091 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 2 (18.18 %) C 2 1 (9.091 %) Java
Qualifications 1 9 (81.82 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 3 (27.27 %) ISEB 3 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (18.18 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft